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Lindsay Clancy looks on as jurors enter the courtroom during her murder trial at Plymouth County Superior Court in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on Sept. 4, 2026. A judge later declared a mistrial after the jury deadlocked. (Greg Derr / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)

Judge declares Clancy case a mistrial

Troy Farah

"It is with a heavy heart that we report we are unable to come to a unanimous decision," the jury said in a note

Antonia Thomas & Josh Dylan in "Agatha Christie's Tommy & Tuppence" (Nick Wall//Courtesy of BritBox)

This Agatha Christie show is disarming

Melanie McFarland

"Tommy & Tuppence" tops our guide to a very watchable fall TV season

President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

It's time for Trump to fire Pete Hegseth

Brian Karem

He's dangerous. He's incompetent. He's ruining America’s reputation. Even the president can see that

Second lady Usha Vance and Vice President JD Vance arrive for a military mothers celebration in the East Room of the White House on May 6, 2026. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

JD's chivalry to Usha fools no one

Amanda Marcotte

Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has the vice president’s number

Mark Zuckerberg (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Meta builds AI "for everyone" in secret

Alex Galbraith

Meta and other AI giants tout open access, but their biggest deals happen out of public view

An ICE patch and badge are seen on a Department of Homeland Security agent on January 22, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by Jim Watson - Pool/Getty Images)

DOJ blocked serious ICE shooting charge

Megan Rose, Andy Mannix - ProPublica

An exclusive email reveals a prosecutor planned to file civil rights charges against an ICE agent

Vice President JD Vance conducts the White House briefing on Thursday, September 3, 2026. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

JD Vance denies Iran war is even a war

Troy Farah

Will the Iran war end before the midterms? The vice president doesn't know

Feminist activist and journalist Gloria Steinem sits in her New York City apartment, Nov. 2, 1990. (Barbara Alper / Getty Images)

Gloria Steinem dead at 92

Melanie McFarland

The woman synonymous with the modern feminist movement changed society in ways both highly visible and subtle

Emily Rossum in "Furious" (Disney)

Women's rage is in season again

Melanie McFarland

Hulu's "Furious" speaks to an ancient anger that the summer's biggest movie missed

Protest against the termination of Temporary Protected Status for the Haitian community, Foley Square in New York City, Aug. 28, 2026. (Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's cruelest act yet

Heather Digby Parton

First they were accused of eating cats. Now Haitian immigrants must face violence back home

Right-wing activist Laura Loomer attends a road dedication ceremony at Mar-a-Lago on Jan. 16, 2026, in Palm Beach, Florida. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)

Loomer is the last MAGA woman standing

Sophia Tesfaye

The anti-Muslim activist outlasts Marjorie Taylor Greene and Kristi Noem in Trump loyalty race

An election worker processes mail-in ballots at the Los Angeles County Ballot Processing Center during California's state primary election in the City of Industry, California, on June 2, 2026. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images)

USPS rule changes could hurt voters

Jen Fifield - ProPublica

Officials worried the rules they were drafting could delay or block ballots from reaching large swaths of voters

A doctor in medical protective gloves takes a vaccine from a glass ampoule into a syringe. (Aleksandr Zubkov / Getty Images)

New guidance on fall vaccines

Troy Farah

Independent medical groups are filling the void left by Trump’s health agenda

Mica Miller worships at Solid Rock Church in a clip from Netflix's "Death of the Pastor's Wife." (Courtesy of Netflix)

"Death of the Pastor's Wife" casts doubt

Coleman Spilde

The Netflix docuseries examining Mica Miller's death could stand to look in the mirror

(L-R) Robert De Niro as Peter Willis, Adam Scott as Tom Kennedy and Michelle Monaghan as Amanda Beck in The Whisper Man (David Lee / Netflix © 2026)

Why Netflix only champions crap

Coleman Spilde

"The Whisper Man" rounds out a trio of original films revealing Netflix's cruel intentions

(Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / mikroman6 / eleonora galli)

Lake America is Trump's "freedom fries"

Ashlie D. Stevens

Long before "Lake America," 2003's freedom fries showed how nationalism turns language into a loyalty test

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, Democratic nominee for the US Senate, speaks at the Democratic Nominating Convention in Lansing MI, on August 29th, 2026. (Katie McTiernan/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Abdul El-Sayed was right about 9/11

Alex Galbraith

If you're going to ask an American how they feel about Sept. 11, you can't get mad at the correct answer

An Amazon Web Services data center in Stone Ridge, Virginia, seen on Aug. 26, 2026. Data centers' economic benefits versus their energy and water demands have become a debate ahead of the midterms. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)

Data center rebellion causes tech panic

Amanda Marcotte

Silicon Valley billionaires hope to buy their way out of democracy

Lindsay Clancy and defense attorney Kevin Reddington listen to testimony at Plymouth Superior Court, Aug. 18, 2026. (Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Lindsay Clancy and a system on trial

Jesselyn Radack

The Massachusetts mother badly needed mental health treatment. America staged a show trial instead

A Trump executive order to limit mail-in ballots just hit a roadblock as a federal court ruled against the administration to enforce the order. But there's still four months until the midterms. (Ronaldo Bolaños / Getty Images)

Perils of rushing mail ballot systems

Dion Nissenbaum, Votebeat - Votebeat

The anonymous whistleblower described the Postal Service’s work on systems as “secretive, rushed, chaotic"

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents patrol Terminal C at LaGuardia Airport on March 24, 2026 in New York, New York. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

ICE is arresting more people than ever

Troy Farah

New data on immigration arrests continues to break records

Chef cooking for social media (Oscar Wong / Getty Images)

Chefs don't just cook anymore

Francesca Giangiulio

As chefs expand into fashion, travel and social media, the boundaries of restaurant culture are shifting with them

President Donald Trump speaks alongside Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. (Aaron Schwartz / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump pounces on the press in a panic

Sophia Tesfaye

From the president to the Pentagon, the administration appears to be in a spiral

Mural in Caracas depicting an oil pumpjack against a Venezuelan flag. (Pedro Mattey/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's slimy Venezuela oil deal

Heather Digby Parton

President once said Venezuela's oil was the dirtiest in the world. Now he's trying to steal it

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